Word: bleeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operators for mail contracts. The crowd broke into a long whistle of surprise when bids of 17½? and 19? per airplane mile were read off for routes on which "General" Farley had specified a maximum of 45?. The companies, it seemed, were ready to cut their throats and bleed to financial death rather than die of slow starvation without any airmail contracts...
...Michigan City, Ind., night before his execution Uxoricide Harvey Edwards slashed his wrists, started to bleed to death. Prison physicians gave him blood transfusions, worked 22 hours to save his life. Saved, Harvey Edwards was successfully electrocuted...
...sized fight between President Roosevelt and Congress over veterans' pensions was cut short last June by the hurried adjournment of the Hundred Day special session. That adjournment by no means settled the issue for Congressmen who like to battle, bleed and die for pensioners. They could afford to compromise with the White House in 1933 because there was no election that year. But this is 1934 and the whole House and one third of the Senate must go to the voters in November. That difference largely accounted for last week's resurgence of the pension problem on Capitol...
...Communists than did Horst Wessel. It is definitely militaristic - at a time when all Chancellor Hitler's words are of Peace. "You must be Good Europeans ! '' a pacifist teacher tells his class. "Down with arms !" "To arms!" shouts Student Hans Westmar. In order to fight, bleed and make themselves "true Germans" Hans and his classmates stage a dueling match with sabres. They thus break the antidueling law of the German Republic, one of the first laws canceled by Adolf Hitler when he became Chancellor. To tempt Hero Hans a beauteous U. S. heiress appears, but Hans scorns...
Women's Narrow Compromise -- 1st. N. Y. White; 2nd. Annah T. Bleed. Time...